Project Grant 2507527
- This Project Grant award of $346,803, provided by the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), supports research at the University of Chicago to test theories underlying what makes certain stimuli more memorable than others. The project aims to understand the underlying brain mechanisms that determine what information is prioritized for storage in human memory. The research utilizes behavioral experiments, brain imaging, and artificial...
- This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's Office of Multidisciplinary Activities under CFDA Program 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, supports an early-career scientist's postdoctoral fellowship to study how childhood experiences shape brain development during adolescence. The $160,000 award, effective from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2027, will fund research to characterize the links between childhood environment and cortical...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant award, provided through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports a postdoctoral fellowship for an early-career scientist to study human decision-making, learning, and innovation in novel systems of rules and reward. The $160,000 award, spanning January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2027, will be used to conduct large-scale behavioral studies, including human-human gameplay experiments, to empirically validate a...
- This $272,750 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports fundamental research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on how people make decisions and interact based on information. The key research focuses include: 1) understanding the long-term implications of people's limited or imperfect memory, which can lead to overconfidence and neglect of rare events; 2) examining how people decide...
- This National Science Foundation project grant of $282,603 supports research into time and episodic memory being conducted at Washington University in University City, Missouri from September 2022 through August 2023. The research investigates how the capacity for remembering past personal experiences contributes to one's sense of time and understanding of the past, present and future. Specifically, the project studies temporal cognition in individuals with episodic amnesia to learn how episodic...
- This federal Project Grant award of $604,425.00 from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program aims to determine how the brain's memory systems help prevent competition and promote cooperation between memories to guide attention. The research, led by the University of California, Berkeley, will investigate the role of the hippocampus in minimizing confusion between similar memories and accurately directing attention, with potential...
- This $160,000 Postdoctoral Fellowship award was granted by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The funding supports an early career scientist to investigate how adults learn about and explain the causes of others' behavior over a 2-year project period from September 2024 to August 2026. The research aims to develop a computational model of action explanation by examining when traits versus situational factors or...
- This Project Grant award of $199,999 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research effort between the University of Chicago and Swiss partners to advance the understanding of the neural and behavioral underpinnings of working memory. The goal is to clarify the cognitive role of neurally active representations in working memory and examine whether there are specific operations that require...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $208,090 Project Grant to Purdue University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant is for a 3-year project from August 2024 to July 2027 focused on building a conceptual framework for understanding the "engram" - the neural mechanisms underlying memory retention and recall. The project will employ methods from biology, history, and philosophy of science to develop an updated, expanded...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award provides $160,000 in funding to support a postdoctoral fellowship investigation into how sleep facilitates the integration of new and existing memories. The goal is to understand the brain mechanisms that enable this integration process, which is critical for building knowledge from new information encountered in daily life. The study will use electroencephalography (EEG),...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of Multidisciplinary Activities, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports a postdoctoral fellowship to investigate how humans use detailed memories of past experiences to make adaptive decisions when facing uncertain futures. The $160,000 award, effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2027, will fund research conducted by an early career scientist under the sponsorship of Dr. Marcelo Mattar at New York University. The project combines behavioral experiments and brain imaging techniques to determine when and how people rely on episodic memories during decision-making, and develops computational models to understand optimal memory strategies for flexible future use. The findings from this research are expected to advance the development of more human-like artificial intelligence systems that can adapt to changing circumstances based on past experiences.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $160.0k | 8/25/25 |